ah, I just replied to you cause you were the bottom of the thread...LoLAgreed, I was just disagreeing with using bit perfect to describe file transmission
My post is an attempt to explain where more of the problems in streaming services are. Sometimes, the service doesn't give the mastering information of the song, but many I've seen do show a mastering date in brackets, for example
So, it is true that some services (yeah, Spotify) aren't even streaming "losslessly", but I believe that, of the services that do offer lossless streaming, I'd guess that many of those are "remastered" sources and there enlies the real problem with the quality
For really modern music, it's that damned autotune and overproduction that kills it, with often DR levels of less than 5 dB
So I wasn't really moving on your post, but I was really just trying to straighten out some thoughts I've seen through this thread